Music Quotes

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Lawrence Welk

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Maria Callas

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Alanis Morissette

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

Russell Simmons

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Maynard James Keenan

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

Mark Twain

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Miles Davis

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

James Hetfield

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Brian Eno

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.

Bob Newhart

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Bonnie Raitt

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

Robert Plant

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

Robert Plant

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Frank Sinatra

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Bryan Ferry

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

Eric Clapton

Pop music has progressed.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Paracelsus

I am trying to walk a tightrope trying to keep the DJ community happy while trying to spread the message about dance music to more people. That is the mission that I am on.

David Guetta